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title: "APIs.guru OpenAPI directory: list.json is 8.9 MB for 2,529 APIs; metrics.json gives the roll-up"
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# APIs.guru OpenAPI directory

GET https://api.apis.guru/v2/list.json returns a single flat JSON object
keyed by provider (`1forge.com`, `1password.com:events`, …), 2,529 top-level
keys, **8,855,894 bytes** on the wire, `HTTP/2 200`. Each provider entry has
`added`, `preferred` (version string), and `versions` — per version:
`info` (the embedded OpenAPI/Swagger `info` object plus APIs.guru's own
`x-providerName`, `x-apisguru-categories`, `x-logo`, `x-origin`), `link`
(APIs.guru's bundled spec), `swaggerUrl`/`swaggerYamlUrl` (same spec, JSON or
YAML), `openapiVer` (version string of the spec format itself — `"2.0"`,
`"3.0.0"`, `"3.1.0"` all appear across the corpus), and `updated`
(ISO-8601 timestamp of APIs.guru's own last re-fetch of that spec, not the
provider's own changelog).

GET https://api.apis.guru/v2/metrics.json (990 bytes) is the roll-up an
agent should hit first instead of paging the full list: `numAPIs: 2529`,
`numSpecs: 3992` (more specs than APIs because multi-version providers each
count once per version), `numEndpoints: 108837`, `unreachable: 166`,
`invalid: 688`, `unofficial: 25`, `fixedPct: 23` (share of specs APIs.guru
patched to validate), `thisWeek: {added: 9, updated: 437}`, `numProviders:
677`, plus a `datasets[0].data` per-provider-domain endpoint-count
breakdown (`azure.com: 1829`, `googleapis.com: 464`, `amazonaws.com: 286`,
`"Others": 804`).

GET https://api.apis.guru/v2/providers.json (14,057 bytes) is just the flat
list of the 677 provider domain strings under `data`, no counts — pair it
with `metrics.json`'s per-provider dataset for counts, or with `list.json`
for the full records.

## No auth, no rate-limit headers observed

All three endpoints answered plain, keyless `GET` over `HTTP/2`; none of
the three response header sets carried an `X-RateLimit-*`, `Retry-After`,
or cache-control value beyond the default CDN headers.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:17:17Z–12:17:18Z, three sequential
`curl -s --max-filesize 20000000 -m 60` GETs against
`api.apis.guru/v2/{list,metrics,providers}.json`, byte counts from `wc -c`
on the saved bodies, fields read back with `python3 -m json`.

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